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Amelita M. Escareal, et al. vs. Philippines Airlines, Inc., et al

AMELITA M. ESCAREAL, RUBIROSA VERSOZA and DAVE FRANCISCO M. VELASCO, Petitioners, versus PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., PATRIA T. CHIONG, JORGE MA. CUI, JR., NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (3rd Division), Respondents.

G.R. No. 151922 | 2005-04-07

D E C I S I O N 


Tinga, J.: 

  The present Petition for Review assails a Court of Appeals Decision[1] declaring that where both contending parties, dissatisfied as they were with the judgment of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), separately elevate said judgment by their respective petitions for certiorari, the first decision by the appellate court in one petition once it assumes finality, constitutes res judicata on the other petition. 

  The quasi-judicial arbiters and the Court of Appeals, in the two petitions before two of its Divisions, share the following findings of facts,[2] viz: 

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